Michigan, USA, 1978. Bachelor’s degree in the History of Art at Michigan State University (2004), Masters Degree in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Toronto, Canada (2007), and PhD in the History of Art, Architecture and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (2016, thesis topic: sixteenth-century Portuguese antiquarian drawings, art and architectural theory). Taught classes in art history at the University of Toronto, New York University, and Purchase College SUNY (2005-2011). Moved to Portugal for research on fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation (2012). Researcher at the archives of the Vatican and the American Academy (Rome); San Lorenzo de El Escorial and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid); the Warburg Institute and the British Museum (London), and the Academia das Ciências, the Biblioteca Nacional, the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon). Translator, writer, and co-founder of Lisbon Living Room Sessions concert series.